Hi everyone! 

How’s your week going? Me? Oh, I’m feeling a bit on the stressed out side. Getting over being a bit sick over the weekend and getting news last week that we may be moving this year. I hate moving, personally, but I do like the adventure of living somewhere new so it’s a good and bad announcement.
In crochet news, this week’s new pattern is, I hope, a fun one! It’s another bag, a cute drawstring design that you can make in one night. All you need is yarn, a G hook, and some tapestry crochet knowledge. If you want to make this bag a nice long bag, like last week’s Valentine’s Heart Bag, repeat the pattern once more before heading onto the top section.

Materials

• US G (4.00 mm) crochet hook
• Aran/ medium/ size #4 weight yarn
  • approx 1.7 oz/ 105 yds
  • I used Loops and Threads Impeccable
• Yarn needle

Gauge

• 18 scs x 16 rows = 4.5″

Terms/ stitches

• RS: right side (side that faces out)
• Ch: chain
• St: stitch
• Slip st: slip stitch
• Sc: single crochet
• BLO: back loop only

Notes

• This pattern is worked in the round, with a slip st into the first st of the row.
• The ch 1 at the beginning of the row does not count as a stitch.
• This pattern is worked from the bottom up in 4 sections – the Bag, the Top, the Closing, and the Cord.
• All of the stitches in this pattern are single crochets. The directions will only tell you what color (ie: Color A, Color B, etc…) and the number in the parentheses tells you how many single crochets to make.
• In the example, the inactive yarn is carried behind the active. If this is confusing, you might want to check out this helpful Moogly video on tapestry.
• You need to know how to work into the back loop only (BLO) for this pattern. At the end of the row, slip st into both loops, this will help keep your seam straight.
• You will need to know how to create a slipknot on your hook for this pattern.
• If you don’t work this pattern in the back loop only, it might end up leaning. You can block the finished item to make it lean less.
• In the photos: color A is gray (Loops and Threads Impeccable in Gray), color B is pink (Loops and Threads Impeccable in Arbor Rose), and color C is white (Loops and Threads Impeccable in White).

Finished measurements

• Height: 7″
• Diameter: 7″

Row 13: A: Ch 1, (18), B: (24), A: (18), slip st into the first st – 60 scs
Rows 14 – 15: A: Ch 1, (19), B: (22), A: (19), slip st into the first st – 60 scs
Row 16: A: Ch 1, (20), B: (9), A: (2), B: (9), A: (20), slip st into the first st – 60 scs
Row 17: A: Ch 1, (21), B: (7), A: (4), B: (7), A: (21), slip st into the first st – 60 scs
Row 18: A: Ch 1, (22), B: (5), A: (6), B: (5), A: (22), slip st into the first st – 60 scs
Row 19: A: Ch 1, (23), B: (3), A: (8), B: (3), A: (23), slip st into the first st – 60 scs
Fasten off color B.
Rows 20 – 23: A: Ch 1, (60), slip st into the first st – 60 scs

– Top –
(this section is worked into both loops)

Row 24: A: Ch 1, sc into the same st as join, ch 2, skip the next 2 sts, *sc into the next 2 sts, ch 2, skip the next 2 sts,* repeat from * to * 13 more times, sc into the last st, slip st into the first st – 30 scs, 15 ch-2 spaces
Row 25: A: Ch 1, sc into the next 60 sts (this counts both ch-2 spaces and scs), slip st into the first st – 60 scs
Fasten off color A, weave in all your ends.

– Closing –

Create a slipknot on your hook with color a, fold your whole piece in half so that your seam is down the back side and the lips are in the center front. Sc together the back and front pieces of the bag using the next 30 sts – 30 scs
Fasten off, weave in your ends.